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OSCAR A. ELLIOTT, OF YORK, NEBRASKA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES FISHBAUGH, OF SAME PLACE.

PENCIL-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 478,537, dated July 5, 1892. Application filed May 7, 1891. Serial No. 391,943. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OSCAR A. ELLIOTT, of York, in the county of York and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pencil-Holders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in pencil-holders; and it consists, essentially, of an open-ended casing for receiving one or more pencils endwise with a coil-spring or a series of springs connected with the casingin position for the pencil to enter between next adjacent springs or next adjacent coils of the same spring for clamping the pencil, the device being of such size and form usuallythat it can conveniently be carried in the vestpocket or attached to the garment outside the pocket, according to circumstances. In carrying out my invention the device can be modified to ac'onsideralole extent to adaptitto the purpose under diiferent circumstances. For instance, the device may be made to set in the bottom of the pocket or the device may be provided with a hook for suspending it inside or outside the pocket, as may be preferred.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1, 3, 5, and 7 are side elevations, and Figs. 2, 4, 6, and 8 are the corresponding end elevations, showing various forms of pencil-holders embodying my invention. Fig. 9 is an enlarged elevation in detail hereinafter described.

It will be observed that in each of the modified forms there is a casing A of tin or other light sheet metal, the casing being open top and bottom, and a coil-spring B is shown in Figs. 1, 5, and 7, or a series of springs b, as shown in Fig. 3, for grasping the pencil. Spring B may be arranged in various ways to accomplish the object. For instance,in Figs. 1 and 2 this spring is shown bodily inclosed within the casing, the sides of the casing being bellied out at ato accommodate the spring and to hold the spring in place after it has been crowded into the casing. In Fig. 5 instead of bellying out the casing these parts are cut away at a to accommodate the spring. In Figs. 7 and 8 the casing is cut away at a the same as in Figs. 5 and 6, leaving bars a and the spring is coiled around these bars to hold it in place. In Figs. 3 and 4 in placeof a coil-springa series of U-shaped springs C is employed, these being soldered to the casing and depending from the lower edge thereof. These springs are located at or near the bottom of the casing, and the pencil as it is entered endwise into the casing is crowded in between two next adjacent springs or in between next adjacent convolutions of the same spring. and in either case the tension of the spring or springs holdsthe pencil in place.

Any of these devices may be placed, for instance, in the vest-pocket and in such position for holding the pencil. and 6 is shown a hook D for hooking onto the edge of the pocket, in which case the device may be suspended inside or outside the pocket, as preferred. In Fig. 9 a hook D is shown provided with aspring-clasp for tight ening the hook or causing it to grasp the cloth, or, in other Words, for clamping the device so that it cannot be as easily removed.

Of course the device can be made larger or smaller for different-sized pencils, or the device can be made tapering, so that a large pencil will fit in one end and a smaller pencil will fit in the other end and medium-sized pencils will fit along the central section thereof; but in either case the device is so small that it can be readily carried in the vestpocket, if so desired.

What I claim is A pencil-holder comprising an open-ended casin g adapted to receive one or more pencils endwise and a series of springs extending across said casin g and adapted to embrace the pencils or other articles inserted in the easing, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification, in the presence of.two witnesses, this 6th day of April, 1891.

. 'OSCAR A. ELLIOTT.

Witnesses:

J. D. WHITE, H. I. FERGUSON.

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